Connecter cap



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CONNECTER CAP Original Filed July 30, 1928 ..251 vent'or.-

www .Linton UNITED' A :STATES PATENT i oFFicE Ywam y I `FrancisC.Kellatli.(iliicagiallh,akamai meine assignments, to Cut! dimmer, Ixus., l Milwaukee, Wis., a corporation oi Delaware Application `July 30, 1928. Serial No; 296.309 Renewed June 6, 1932 1e claims. (ci. ris-:en

My invention relates to connecter caps, and conductor wires l are inserted and supported in more especially to that type of caps used in conthe longitudinal passage l. nection with extension cordsior making sepav The passage 5 opens directly into the chamber rable connection with attachment plugs or re- 6 in the enlarged portion 2 and 'in which the r ceptacles. connecter pins 'l are supported in parallel spaced Connecter caps are usually made of molded relation. 'Ihe passage 5 is enlarged atl adjacent insulation which is easily damaged and often the chamberltoreceivethebindingterminals Ito broken by being dropped on cement iloors or by which the ends of the conductor wires are atother rough usage. tached, the holes lll in the pins VI being 10 l It is one of the objects ofl my invention to to receive the screws.

provide a connecter cap which will be shock ab- The enlarged ends H of the pins are support# sorbing and not easily broken. ed in the spaced depressions or cavities Il which' Another object is to provide a Aconnecter cap are designed to t the pins very snugly when with covered binding terminals, and in which they are inserted therein.

l all of the parts are held securely together without Adjacent to the iloor of the chamber C is a l" the use of screws or rivets or any securing means circumferential groove Il in which is. supported other than the interlocking and the inherent the insulating disk Il. The disk Itis provided properties of the material of the major parts of with spaced openings I5 thru which the pins l the device. extend, the cpenings'being in alignment and co *20 .20 A further object is to provide an article of operating with the cavities I2 to hold the pins manufacture of few parts, easy to assemble, in parallel spaced relation. Shoulders It are cheap to manufacture, and which will not easily provided on the pins 1 to prevent longitudinal get out of order. movement.

Further objects will appear from the detailed It is sometimes desirable to dispense with the specification to follow and from the appended binding screws 9 in which case the wires are inciaims. serted in the holes lll andsoldered therein as A Realizing that my invention may be varied in shown m Fig, 6, l its physical embodiment Without departing fr0!!! In order to wire the device the elastic walls of the Spirit 0f the invention. I desire it t0 be unthe chamber i are stretched sumciently to allow derstood that the specic construction herein the disk M and the pins 1 suppurted there,t to Shown is t0 be taken BS illustrati and not' in a be removed, the conductors 4 are Ainserted thru' limited sense. the passage 5 and secured to the binding screws Inl-he accmpnyin drawing in which an em' or soldered-in the holes l0. The assembled pins bOdiment 0f my invention is Shown: and disk are then inserted in the handle as 35 F19- 1 is a Vertical axial Section thru the device' shown in Fig. 1 where they are held securely in the terminal pins eentaeters being shwn in position by the tension-or the rubberlike mafun lines' temi or the handle. Y mlg 2li e' top View of the device es illustrated While the pins shown are made from ilat man terial it is evident that various sha and num- 0 mfflmgmentary sect1 taken 0 une bers might be used within the scopof the foi- 40 S-I o ama E,

` a l Fig. 4 is a top end view of the handle with the losnl appear the rubber like element l com eoglneerispine andeegemerflstxgog'wd stitutes a main base or body oi fthe plug cap s' a 'pennen p whereas the disk like element I4 constitutes an 45 associated parts assembled and removed from a base or *as wm appear the thgll'mdilfoerspecgtive View of ne of ,the pms element I4 may appropriately be termed a spacer or a retainer.

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Referring now to the drawing m detail the canclaii as new and desire to secure by Letters Ifat- 50 ustra handle l en S2- v 'dtrofpsoa,elemefefagrauke mav1. In combination; n flexible electric condimrial, preferably molded and having an enlarged ing cord, a contact prong connected to the end portion 2 in which the connecter pins are supof said cord and projecting a substantial distance v l ported, and a restricted portion I thru which the beyond the end of said cord, and a two-part body 55 portion constituting an enclosure for said connection, one of said parts being apertured to receive and tit the cord and the other of said parts serving to -position the projecting end of said prong, said parts being interlocked against separation one from the other when they are assembled together, and one of said parts being formed ot resilient material capable of being distorted to permit such assembly.

2. In an electric plug connecter, the combination of a body member provided withr an aperture, a pair of contact prongs having inner end portions enclosed in said body and outer end portions projecting from said aperture and beyond the adjacent end oi said body member. a spacer member interlocked with said body for maintaining said contact prongs in spaced relation and serving to close the end of said aperture from which said prongs project, and a pair of electric current conductors connected respectively to said contact prongs within said body portion, the body and spacer members being relatively distortable to permit assembly of the body and spacer.

3. An electric plug connecter comprising a main body having a recess therein, an auxiliary member interlocked therewith, one of said members being formed of resilient material so as to be capable oi' being distorted for permitting interlocking thereof with the other member, and a contact prong disposed in the recess in said body member and having a portion engaging said auxiliary body member, whereby the contact prong' is positioned in said body.

4. An electric plug connecter, comprising a main body member having a recess therein, an auxiliary body member interlocked therewith, one of said members being formed of resilient material so as to be capable of being distorted 'for permitting interlocking thereof with the other member, and a terminal disposed in the recess in said main body member and provided with a portion engaging said auxiliary member, whereby the terminal is retained in said aperture.

5. An electric plug connecter, comprising a main body member having a recess therein, an auxiliary body member interlocked therewith, one of said members being formed of resilient material so as to be capable of being distorted for permitting interlocking of said members, aA

terminal disposed in said recess, and a contact member connected to said terminal, said terminal and contact member being provided with means engaging said auxiliary member and thereby maintained in operative position relative to said main body member.

6. An attachment plug cap comprising a base made of a soft, flexible, elastic rubber like material having a shallow chamber therein and a circumferential groove adjacent to the floor of said chamber, a removable insulating disk in said groove, outwardly and inwardly extending extending ends of said pins seating in cavities in' said body, all of said parts being held in assembled relation by the inherent elastic properties of said body.

8. A connecter cap comprising a body made of a soft, exible, elastic, rubber like material having a chamber therein, an'insulating connecter pin retainer removably held in said chamber by the inherent properties of the base, connecter pins supported in cavities in said base and extending thru said retainer, and shoulders on said pins and resting against said retainer to prevent longitudinal movement.

9. An attachment plug cap comprising a base made of a soft, flexible, elastic, rubber like ma- -terial having an open chamber formed therein,

said.chamber having a circumferential groove formed in the wall thereof, a disk of insulating material, the wall of said chamber being distortable to permit insertion of said disk into said groove, a pluralityof one-piece-combined plug jack and wiring terminal members extending through said disk in spaced relationship to each other and having parts abutting said disk, the wiring terminal portions of said members extending rearwardly of-said disk for concealment thereof within said chamber, and the plug jack portions of said members extending forwardly from said disk beyond the end of said base.

l0. An attachment plug cap comprising a base made of soft, rubber-like material having an open chamber in one end and an axial cord passage communicating with said chamber, plug-jacks located in said chamber and seated in direct contact with said base, and means to secure said plug-jacks to said base, said means comprising a relatively thin and relatively rigid disk-like member of insulating material supported within said base transversely of the latter, said plug jacks being associated with said disk-like member to be spaced thereby.

1l. In an attachment plug cap, the combination with a base comprising a molded soft, rubberlike body and a relatively thin and relatively rigid disk-like member of insulating material, said body having an axial cord passage and an open end chamber communicating with said passage and said disk-like member being supported within said body transversely of the latten-of a 'plurality of one-piece combined plug-jack and wiring terminal members located in said chamber in said body and seated in direct contact with said body,said plug-jack members and said disklike member having mechanical connections whereby the former are anchored and spaced by the latter, the aforedeiined construction enabling attachment and wiring of said plug-jack members subsequent to molding of said body l 12. An attachment plug cap comprising contact prongs and a supporting base therefor into which conductors may be led in one direction for attachment to said contact prongs, said contact prongs having integral terminal parts extending into said base in an opposite direction for enclosure of said terminal parts by said base whereby at least a partially unassembled relation of said base and contact prongs is a prerequisite of f FRANCIS C. KOLLATH. 

